HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode Method (String, TextWriter)
URL-encodes a string and sends the resulting output to a TextWriter output stream.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Parameters
- s
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Type:
System.String
The text string to encode.
- output
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Type:
System.IO.TextWriter
The TextWriter output stream that contains the encoded string.
URL encoding ensures that all browsers will correctly transmit text in URL strings. Characters such as a question mark (?), ampersand (&), slash mark (/), and spaces might be truncated or corrupted by some browsers. As a result, these characters must be encoded in <a> tags or in query strings where the strings can be re-sent by a browser in a request string.
UrlEncode is a convenient way to access the HttpUtility.UrlEncode method at run time from an ASP.NET application. Internally, UrlEncode uses HttpUtility.UrlEncode to encode strings.
To encode or decode values outside of a web application, use the WebUtility class.
The following example encodes a string for transmission by HTTP. It encodes the string named TestString, which contains the text "This is a <Test String>.", and copies it into the string named EncodedString as "This+is+a+%3cTest+String%3e.".
Available since 1.1